Barack Obama

Obama Issues New Call to Service

Updated 3:03 p.m.By Ed O'Keefe
President Obama is looking for a few volunteers, asking Americans to dedicate themselves this summer to local community service projects in an extension of his earlier calls to sustain the nation's increased interest in public service.

The United We Serve summer service initiative, announced today by the White House with a Web video, above, will begin June 22 and run through the National Day of Service and Remembrance on Sept. 11. The new holiday, which marks the 2001 terrorist attacks, was established earlier this year with passage of Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.

"The challenges we face are unprecedented in their size and scope, and we cannot rely on quick fixes or easy answers to put us on the road to recovery," Obama says in the video. "In this new century, we need to a build a new foundation for economic growth in America."

"Economic recovery is as much about what you're doing in your communities as what we're doing in Washington -- and it's going to take all of us, working together."

The effort will focus on four areas of interest to the president: education, health, energy and the environment and community renewal. Those four areas mesh well with the administration's current priorities: health care reform, energy and climate change legislation and continuing efforts to reform the nation's schools.

The White House said Serve.gov will act as a clearinghouse for anyone interested in sharing information about new service projects or looking to find nearby opportunities.

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Some of these programs have been corrupted and co-opted by extremist elements -- to create an anti-democratic an "extrajudicial targeting and punishment matrix."

Federally-funded citizen volunteer organizations such as Citizen Corps, Infragard and USA on Watch have been transmogrified into an American Gestapo that is violating human and civil rights.

The federal citizen volunteer apparatus must be be reformed and purged of those who have turned volunteers into gang-stalking police state stormtroopers -- making a mockery of the rule of law at the grassroots.